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Comment by halfdan

7 hours ago

I, a non-smoker, would like to not walk through clouds of smoke.

That's what I say when I breathe car exhaust. Why cannot all combustion engines be removed from society for my health preference?

  • Some cities have streets where internal combustion engines are banned.

    Some have bans on just diesel engines. Others ban combustion engines during some hours. Some inner-city congestion taxes have been introduced for health reasons.

When they came for the smokers, I did not care, because I was not a smoker.

There's a general trend of trying to "optimize" society to remove all ills, and once you apply that logic, there's no clear stopping point. Once you ban sale of tobacco products, you can use that same logic to ban anything, from Cheetos to skydiving to motorcycles.